Legendary Liverpool club Cream played host to Nicky Romero‘s Protocol Recordings for the second part of Cream’s 22nd birthday celebrations as November drew to a close. The Dutch outfit certainly affirmed the role of big room house at the top of today’s dance music tree by bringing a massive lineup to one of the UK’s stand-out club [...]

Nicky Romero is mixing things up with his latest release Feet On The Ground, teaming up with singer/songwriter and compatriot Anouk, who provides some explosive vocals and a rock-infused sound that meshes surprisingly well within a big room house track.
Anouk’s influence runs throughout, with her hard-hitting and lively vocal style that [...]

Oh Nicky, you so nasty.
Protocol Recordings boss Nicky Romero returns with the song that sent this year’s main-stage crowd at Ultra Music Festival into collective apoplexy: an edit of rising big room star John Christian’s Next Level.
In typical Nicky fashion, everything about his Next Level edit is massive. Vivacious and vigorous, the [...]

Nicky Romero unveiled his edit of R3hab and Lucky Date’s collaborative Rip It Up today, taking the already-heavy big room item up a couple notches on the energy scale.
Although as an edit, we won’t see massive overhauls to the initial R3hab and Lucky Date signature, but the Protocol boss is able to put his own spin on the track [...]

Mondays are always a little less dreadful when you have a kick-ass selection of new tunes to fuel you through the day’s tasks, especially when one of those is a fresh sound from Dutch electro and big room mainstays Bassjackers. Their new track Zing, out now via Protocol, is a drum-rolling earworm that features just enough of their [...]

The first ever Q-dance-only USA event is going down this Oct 5 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles! The lineup includes some of Europe’s hardest hitters like Coone, Wildstylez, Noisecontrollers, and Psyko Punkz. We can’t wait to see the stage design and level of production, which is always very impressive at Q-Dance parties.
If [...]

A month after crashing Nicky Romero’s Protocol Recordings with his formidable trap remix of Legacy, Dutch beat maestro Don Diablo teams up with New York-based producer Cid for the release of Prototype, the tandem’s second collaborative effort on the fast-rising label.
With this acid-inspired paradigm, DD & Cid reinforce the notion that [...]

Hey everyone, happy Monday. Hope your weekend was as great as ours, as our West Coast team has the three-part recap of Outside Lands in SF for you, plus we’ve got remixes of Krewella and Nicky Romero, a remix of a classic from Giorgio Moroder, some great TomorrowLand footage featuring Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, and more in today’s [...]

Everyone loves wearing diffraction glasses for the cool effect that they put on lights at clubs and festivals, but most of the time they’re made out of paper and get crumpled-up easily. Luckily, there are quality, durable diffraction glasses sold by Eye Party. They come in all sorts of colors and have two sets of lenses so you can select [...]

John Dahlback never ceases to produce material that can please the crowds while catching the ear of many producers. Following an explosive single Pressure, John is back with his debut record on Protocol Recordings titled Nuke. It’s been a few months since the last release on Protocol–Symphonica by label owner Nicky Romero. It seems that [...]